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Professional lobbying in eighteenth century Brussels. The role of agents in petitioning the central government institutions in the Habsburg Netherlands Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Historians have underscored the crucial importance of petitions both in early modern
political practice and for relations between rulers and ruled. However, little is known about
how formal requests were actually presented to rulers or the role of professional lobbyists.
This article describes these individuals, using materials from a well-documented case,
namely the court agents who were active in recommending petitions to ...
political practice and for relations between rulers and ruled. However, little is known about
how formal requests were actually presented to rulers or the role of professional lobbyists.
This article describes these individuals, using materials from a well-documented case,
namely the court agents who were active in recommending petitions to ...
Lobbying strategies and success University of Antwerp
In their pursuit of political influence, interest groups face the choice to contact policy elites directly or to generate pressure indirectly by appealing to the public at large. This article examines whether interest groups should prioritize inside or outside lobbying tactics in order to materialize their policy objectives, with a specific focus on European Union legislative policymaking. This article demonstrates that outside lobbying is not ...
Explaining varying lobbying styles across the Atlantic University of Antwerp
There is consensus in the literature that policymaking in the United States (US) and Europe generates different lobbying styles. Two explanations for these differences have been developed so far. The first posits that distinct lobbying styles reflect different political cultures. The second attributes distinct lobbying styles to variation in the institutional context in which lobbyists operate. Studies that have analysed lobbying within the US ...
Spaces of lobbying KU Leuven
© 2017 The Author(s) Geography Compass © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd This paper departs from the observation that a systematic review of the available theories, concepts, and methods and techniques for researching lobbying is lacking. Lobbying is a relational geography of power. And although economic and political geographers study a range of practices that could be considered constitutive to lobbying, they have hitherto largely ignored the ...
Lobbying the lobbyists University of Antwerp
Advocacy is typically conceived of as an activity where advocacy groups seek and policymakers grant influence. In this paper, we turn the classic approach to advocacy upside down and ask under what conditions policymakers seek to exert influence on the positions adopted by opposing or allied advocacy groups. Two strategies that policymakers can use in their interactions with advocacy groups are proposed: amplification and persuasion. We build on ...
De verschillende gedaantes van lobbying KU Leuven
Lobbyen lijkt vaak een ver-van-mijn-bed-show, dat zich enkel voltrekt in de kringen van Frank Underwood in House of Cards. Dit artikel demonstreert hoe alomtegenwoordig lobbyen is vandaag, waar de macht(sbronnen) van lobbyisten vandaan komen en hoe vergaand de gevolgen zijn. Het artikel gaat dieper in op lobbyen in de vastgoed- en financiële sector.
Influence, affluence and media salience: economic resources and lobbying influence in the European Union University of Antwerp
This paper evaluates the circumstances under which affluent interest groups wield influence over policy outcomes. Interest group scholarship is ambiguous about the beneficial role of economic resources for lobbying influence. Economically resourceful groups are often presumed to provide more and better expert information to decision-makers and, in exchange, receive more favourable policy concessions. We argue that the beneficial role of economic ...
Lobbying University of Antwerp
In the battle for influence, public affairs professionals make crucial strategic decisions every single day. “Should we go public with this case?” “Who are we going to lobby, and how?” “Should we form a coalition with other organisations?” Public affairs professionals often make these decisions based on their experience or their gut feeling. In practice, lobbying is often more of an art than a science. It is an intuitive and creative process, ...
Individual and collective representation: the organisational form of higher education lobbying in the European Union KU Leuven
Recent scholarly work on higher education institutions (HEIs) within an EU context has focused on how universities and their core activities have been affected by EU education policy. The organisation of HEIs in order to shape European decision-making on higher education, mainly through their presence in Brussels, has received much less attention. This article therefore focuses on how HEIs organise their EU representation and explains their ...